Snowtown director Justin Kurzel will direct the feature, due to start filming in Victoria from March of next year with writer Shaun Grant (Snowtown, Jasper Jones) on hand to adapt Carey’s uncompromising gothic western for the big screen.

‘Peter Carey’s book The True History of the Kelly Gang always felt like the true spirit of Ned Kelly. Unsentimental, brutal, raw and visceral,’ Kurzel said.

Russell Crowe will lead an all-star cast along with X-Men and Mad Max: Fury Road star Nicholas Hoult, Australian actress Essie Davis (Miss Fisher’s Murder Mysteries and The Babadook), and British actor George MacKay (Captain Fantastic) who have also signed up for the film.

Congratulations to TFA’s Shaun Grant on his next project! Producers include Reese Witherspoon, Bruna Papandrea, Naomi Watts and Emma Cooper. Starring Naomi Watts. Set on Sydney’s northern beaches, Penguin Bloom is the true story of a unique little bird that saves a family.

Check out the most recent interview with TFA’s Shaun Grant in Inside Film where Grant reveals details about forth coming projects including; ‘True History of the Kelly Gang’, A See-Saw thriller AND a medieval epic.

Now working out of an office in West Hollywood, the scribe is working on several projects, including a long-gestating adaptation of Peter Carey’s True History of the Kelly Gang for producer Liz Watts and Snowtown director Justin Kurzel.
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Multi-award winning writer, Shaun Grant caps off a stellar year with ‘Berlin Syndrome’ making it’s world premiere at the 2017 Sundance Film Festival.

Starring Theresa Palmer and Max Riemelt, ‘Berlin Syndrome’ is the story of a passionate holiday romance that takes an unexpected and sinister turn when an Australian photographer wakes one morning in a Berlin apartment and is unable to leave.